#theme: freshmen react

Here you go! -A

also see:

freshmen react to andreil 1 here, 2 here

freshmen react/pov outsider here

latest foxes react to andreil here

‘Me and You’ series here

‘midnight love,’ ‘flashes of intimacy ch 14 “devotion,”’ ‘Forever Is A Big Word,’ and ‘Master post for Fluent Freshman AU’ here

‘Allison asks how andreil got together’ here

‘AFTG/TFC minifics…Ch 21’ here

‘Teaching a caged bird to fly’ series here (particularly part 4)

you may also like:

Jack & Sheena being assholes here

Neil fights with Jack here

fics featuring the freshmen here

they match by Ani_Rygaard [Rated G, 2869 Words, Complete, 2021]

Baby Fox finding out about Andrew and Neil cause Neil called Andrew babe.

tw: alcohol, tw: homophobia

Never Have I Ever by hismiley16 [Rated T, 4332 Words, Complete, 2023]

The foxes induct the freshman with a post-preseason drinking game. Things get out of hand and Andrew shuts everybody up.

tw: alcohol, tw: homophobia

The Palmetto State Foxes Rules by Overherenow [Not Rated, 1536 Words, Complete, 2018]

A summary of rules for all freshmen for the Palmetto State foxes Exy team. And some upperclassmen who might forget.

The most beautiful thing ever by poly_pr1nce [Rated T, 1055 Words, Complete, 2018, Locked]

Kevin gets sent a clip from the last winter banquet, and when Allison sees it she agrees all the Foxes need to see it, especially the Freshmen/Cubs so they know what to expect when they piss Neil off or say stuff about Andrew

there's no way JOSTEN has a girlfriend by itadoriminyard [Rated G, 3246 Words, Complete, 2021]

“But it has to be her! Neil literally doesn’t spend time with anyone outside of this team. Like at all. Who could he possibly be dating? Someone on the team?” She asked sarcastically. She was met with silence. “Wait… are y’all serious?” Nicky was positively ecstatic at this turn of events. -- [The freshmen are determined to find Neil's secret girlfriend. Neil and Andrew are unwilling to aid their quest.]

The 5 times Neil wore Andrew's jersey and the 1 time Andrew wore Neil's by Hand_of_the_Alex [Rated T, 2489 Words, Complete, 2016]

Neil hadn’t meant to do it the first time, he just saw orange and white and slipped it on for his late night exy practices with Kevin. Kevin didn’t give any reaction further than an eye roll and a scoff before getting back to exy, so Neil finished the practise wearing Andrew’s jersey.

tw: homophobia, tw: nightmares 

five times christmas meant something by nomadicdeer (someonestolemycoffee) [Rated G, 2359 Words, Complete, 2017]

I’m going to refer you back to your own previous asks about this, @omgjustkillmealready. Tons of good stuff and previous links in there. - A

arrivals/departures by @triquetrine [Tumblr Fic, 5656 Words, 2020]

An explosion burst across the screen. Cars flipped and people dove for cover. The hero, undeterred, ran into the wreckage. Neil tilted his head slightly to the side, frowning. He didn’t get why everything had to be so dramatic, but he supposed that was just how movies worked. 

tw: implied/referenced violence, tw: gun violence

Neil’s truth hc by @bigdaddydyke09 [Tumblr, 2020]

i love the headcanon that after aftg, neil starts to really work on his honesty but sometimes he doesnt realise how dramatic some of the things he went through were

AFTG/TFC minifics, headcanons from @/neilsexy on tumblr by mugglecastiel [Not Rated, Collection, Updated 2016]  

Chapter 34 - the foxes + finding out neil's mother beat him

- the foxes are playing truth or dare 

- theyre drunk

- it was just for the sake of getting drunk, on vacation 

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: alcohol

Chapter 68 - another the foxes + finding out about neil's mom

- neil’s barely socialized with the baby foxes, but he knows their stories

- one of them was on the run before with their mom, so he considers talking to them

- when he does, it’s with the other foxes around

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: gun violence, tw: alcohol

Art

further exploration of that mask concept animation by @broresteia

I’m fine. art by @myovin

Hi anon!  I hope you can find something you like in what we’ve got for you! - S

Previously mentioned:

protective foxes post here

protective Neil post here

‘you would treat it tenderly’ and ‘careful hands, mended hearts’ (plus ‘careful hands, mended hearts (the fever remix)) in sick!andreil

protective Wymack: ‘I can’t carry this anymore’ here and ‘Haunted’ here

‘Back to the Start’ here

As Normal As Normal Can Be (For Them) by whatismotivation [Rated G, 4625 words, Complete 2020]

Nobody expected Andrew and Neil to be a normal couple, with that ocean of trauma the two shared.

so, here's Five times the foxes were surprised by how normal Andrew and Neil were, and the One time they were all confused.

Where Andrew is healing and Neil is a sunshine boy, and the foxes get to witness a few glimpses of their cute dynamic.

tw: panic attacks

My Indelible Friend by Just_another_shipper [Rated T, 2123 words, complete, 2019]

Andrew, protected in the goal, never would have expected that he would be the first to retire, but that was life for you.

Or, Andrew gets injured while playing exy and when Neil has to finish the season, Matt helps take care of him. It's not as awkward as you would think.

tw: injury

everything has changed by starksrhodey [Rated G, 2009 words, compete, 2019]

Nicky was afraid, okay? He feared Andrew would never be able to find someone who would understand. Someone who didn’t try to guilt him into showing emotion. Nicky feared Neil hadn’t quite realized what he had got himself into. He wanted to shake Neil by the shoulders and ask him if he really knew and if he was okay with that.

Stay by LFMH021 [Rated T, 5252 words, complete, 2016]

Part 1 of the Me and You series

Most see Andrew as an apathetic monster who is heartless and someone who is only with Neil for hate-sex. But one word changed their opinions forever: ‘Stay.’

In short: The Foxes’ impression of Andrew and Neil’s relationship. And on a Wednesday wherein Andrew visited Bee, Neil had a fight with Jack, and the freshman accidentally pushed him down the stairs.

Its continuation is on my other one-shot ‘I can breathe again’.

Hi friend!  Here are a few posts, and fics, where you can find what you’re looking for. - S

The foxes react to Neil’s scars here

The foxes react to Mary’s abuse here

Those That Broke Us by writethroughthenight (Rated T, 6652 words, complete, 2016) 

"Neil doesn't talk about his mom and doesn't think about what she'd do to him if she saw him now. He has a family, he has Exy, and he has Andrew. He has more than enough, more than he ever could have dreamed of. 

Neil doesn't talk about his mom until a warm fall day outside the locker room, waiting for the start of their game with his team and family. It's a place that she doesn't belong, where not even a memory of her belongs, but she wriggles her way in and takes root in his chest."

Or

Neil reveals, piece by piece, what life with his mom was like.

tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced child abuse

Arrivals/departures by @triquetrine [tumblr, 2020]

so this is just an amalgamation of two different requests (the foxes learn about neil’s life on the run and the foxes reacting to neil wielding knives), something i pulled from neil talking about being tortured hc’s i wrote the other day, a bit of allison hc’s i wrote a while back, and my neil+the foxes part 2 hc’s. but it’s basically 50% found family feels and 50% angst.

tw: knives, tw: implied/referenced violence

Foxes reacting to lola’s trial by @triquetrine [tumblr, 2020]

Maybe the foxes reacting to lolas trial next? Like slowly figuring out what Neil went through

tw: implied/referenced torture

neil has died before ficlet by @ravenvsfox [tumblr, 2017]

remember everyone’s favourite headcanon about neil coming back to life once upon a time and telling his unsuspecting friends about it on movie night?? I wrote that bitch!!!

tw: temporary character death, tw: implied/referenced child abuse

Neil's gun skills by @nekojitachan [tumblr, 2020]

A lot of people focus on Neil's knife skills being revealed to the foxes, but what about his gun skills?

tw: mentions of gun violence

AFTG Bingo 2k18: The Brosten Card by exactly13percent [Rated E, collection, complete, Aftg bingo 2018]

Chapter 3: Never Have I Ever

Neil doesn't really drink, so he's never played a drinking game. Thankfully, Matt makes it easy to play sober.

Tumblr fic Never Have I Ever  by @cowpants147 [tumblr fic, 2018]

Never have I ever. Foxes with freshmen